Kathmandu: Nepal's peace process is at crossroads, the head of the United Nations has warned, just two weeks before the planned closure of a UN peace mission in the troubled country. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the lack of progress in the peace process that began when Nepal's bloody civil war ended more than four years ago was a "growing...

The cholera death toll in Haiti is rising daily, with official figures indicating that 3,333 people have died since the outbreak of the epidemic in mid-October. Official sources state that, as a result of cholera, the numbers have averaged out to around 50 new reported deaths a day. The epidemic, the first in Haiti for more than...

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “We lost thirty thousand dead in Korea to save face for the United States and the Untied Nations, not to save South Korea for the South Koreans, and it was undoubtedly worth it. Soviet expectations about the behavior of the United States are one of the most valuable assets we possess in world...

At least 14 Afghan civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a roadside bombing in the southern Helmand province. The bomb struck a minibus travelling on the main road that connects the Sangin district to the major city of Kandahar on Thursday. Several civilians were also wounded. Ghulam Haidar, who said two of his brothers...

Three men suspected of preparing a deadly attack on a newspaper in Copenhagen have been charged by a Danishcourt with plotting an act of terrorism. Police detained four men in Denmark and one in Sweden on Wednesday on suspicion of planning an armed assault on the offices of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that outraged Muslims in 2005 with cartoons...

La Paz, Bolivia (CNN) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales on Thursday defended his decision to end fuel subsidies, a move that caused gasoline and diesel prices to spike and led to protests in major cities since it was announced over the weekend. The country's subsidies led to an artificially low price for diesel and gasoline, which resulted in...

A former Swedish neo-Nazi was yesterday jailed for more than two years for masterminding the theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the entrance of memorial museum on the site of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The 16ft wide sign, a lasting symbol of the Holocaust which states "Work Sets You Free", was removed from the gate of the...

Italy has banned shops and supermarkets from giving their customers plastic bags in an effort to promote natural and recyclable materials. Italians are among the top consumers of plastic bags in Europe, using more than 300 per person a year Photo:...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia as the prime minister promised new assistance Friday to the 200,000 people affected by waters covering an area larger than France and...

BEIJING: Majority of Chinese doubt China's status as a superpower, according to an annual survey which also showed declining trend even among those who believed their country to be the most promising among BRIC (Brazil, Russia , India and China)...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - December's wave of unusually cold weather has destroyed much of Florida's green beans and sweet corn, which means shoppers will pay more at the grocery store and see more imports on the shelves. Florida is the nation's largest...

By Mark Doyle International development correspondent, BBC News Alassane Ouattara is staying under UN protection at Abidjan's GolfHotel Continue reading the main story Ivory Coast: Two presidents, one crisis Will neighbours intervene? Ouattara's...

DANIEL McLAUGHLIN BELARUS HAS charged several of the politicians who ran against Alexander Lukashenko in this month's disputed president election with organising mass unrest, threatening them with a 15-year prison sentence. Four of the nine men who...

MICHAEL JANSEN ARMED PALESTINIAN groups in Gaza have decided to halt rocket attacks on Israel, a senior Islamic Jihad commander announced yesterday. "We agreed to halt one of the means of armed resistance - which is firing rockets at Israel - to...